Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-06
state Division.

State Division.
The State must and shall be divided.
There is no escaping this conclusion.
Each day almost is forcing events to
the accomplishment Of it, and further
postponement is getting in the nature
of the impossible. There are funda-
mental reasons of the broadcast for this
step, and in addition to these essential
principles there are accidental phases
of the question in our case which are
little secondary to the primary and in
herent principles involved. These
phases are not new, but they have of
late gained great head and from this
on they will force the fighting all
along the line.
While South California remained
undeveloped, and was summed up
from the top to bottom of the column
of her importance in the contemptu-
GUS term "the cow countless" the CEN
tral and northern portions of the State
treated her with cavalier contempt
which was sublime. Since the era OF
growth began; since immigrants
from the older states have manifest
ed SO much interest, and unmistakable
a preference for this section and day
by day as Los Angeles City and every
town in the lower counties, and all the
rural districts, have grown in popula-
ton, in material wealth and in infiu-
ence, the upper counties have one and
all converted their passive contempt
into active hostility. OF late this hos
tility has assumed most malignant
type, whose animus is no longer to be
mistaken. Ever since we were State
the central section, with San Francisco
at it's bead, has quietly, and as it were
by divine right, seized upon all there
was of political honor and emolument
in State and National politics. For
tnirty-five years every Senator who
has represented the State at the Ma
tional Capitol has come from the
dead waist and middle"
OF California. The same is true of
nearly all the Governors of the State,
and so on to the end of long chapter
of usurpation on the part of the Bay
City and her environs.
But even this measure of usurpa-
ton no longer satisfies the good peo-
pie who dwell around San Francisco
Bay. The southern counties have
grown at an enormous pace and are
getting into position where contempt
will be notoriously out of place. Re-
cognition must be accorded to her.
This is the reason for the change Of
policy on the part of our northern
brethren. Finding they could not
passively frown us down, and having
no longer any superior advantages on
which to shine us down, they now
propose to scold us down and lie us
down. We must say they have en-
tered upon their new career in this
respect with great vigor. We send
our G. A. r. delegation to st. Louis.
1t is four times as large as theirs. and
it is generously provided with the
good things of the promised land.
The Bay City people go on their way
in parsimonious poverty as to any such
reflections OF fruit and wine. The south
ern boys enjoy their good things, and
speak of the generous people they left
behind, and the generous soil and
sunny skies where this fruit and wine
are produced. Lo! up rise the North
ern brethren and command silence.
The Angelefos and their comrades
must "shut up" about their country
Observe the course of the press in
San Francisco, and other cities in GEN.
fral and northern counties. No op-
portunity is missed to manifest their
hostility towards us. We are simply to
he scolded into subjection, and lied out
Of existence before we grow any larger.
Then there is another accidental
reason of immense importance for
State division in the tax levy OF this
year. That part OF this reason is
Iounded on injustice does not affect
The argument. Whether justly levied
DR. not, we. pay the tax. and the State
gets the benefit Of it. 1t will be re-
member that of the total increase OF